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WIN’09 in Perugia

CERN, DESY, Italy, Physics

It’s Sunday and it’s five in the morning. The alarm goes off.
Yeah right, that was the start of my day … and got better. I had a guy sitting next to me o the plane, that seemed to be of pure garlic!? Dunno … I kinda like garlic, but this guy was pushing it. To round off the two hour flight experience I had a group of young(ish) school kids/teens sitting behind me, talking sh** during the whole flight … hmm perfect.
Arriving in Rome I was allowed to witness the most inefficient airport shuttle ever, finally bringing me from Ciampino to the central station, where I had to walk my heels off to get to the station toilet.
Anyways … after this I actually managed to have a short walk around the city, see the Colosseum and some other parts of the Roman Forum. Unfortunately it was raining a bit and I had only three hours time before I had to catch my train.
Arriving in Perugia I was drawn back into the rhythm the day started by the absence of the shuttle bus that was supposed to pick me up and the fact that I had to find and try four public payphones to finally have one that would not say that I am not allowed to pay with coins in the moment …

In the land of the Inca

Peru

After some good days of work I finally managed to finish the complete route of our trip through Peru, this weekend. It’s online on my webpage since yesterday. Some more words and pictures (login needed) will follow soon(ish).

SplitBill revised

World Wide Web

There is a new version of SplitBill out on the market.
Still it allows you to split bills amoung your friends or whatever, but now it also suggests an optimised transaction scheme. This way the number of transactions needed to even out the expences is reduced to a minimum (one per person in the best case).
The only drawback of this optimisation is the fact that larger amounts have to be transfered by each individual. Of course you still get the traditional calculation, so you can choose for yourself.

Back home …

Bolivia, Peru, Wedding

We actually returned last Wednesday already, but since we left again for the weekend (another wedding party) I only slowly start to feel back home again …
For those that haven’t followed the blog in detail, here’s the very short sum-up of the tour: it was simply amazing and Heike and me became engaged! Yeps!

Lake Titicaca

Bolivia, Peru

After a day of driving from Cusco to Puno we started our boat trip on Lake Titicaca. Visiting the floating islands (made of reed) of the Uros people we continued to Amantani island. There we had a homestay at one of the families. I joined a game of football with some tourists and locals at about 4000m above sea level. Afterwards we hiked up to one of the sacret sites on 4200 m.a.s.l. We finished the day with a dinner wth our family and a party in traditional clothing. Tofday we continued our boat trip to Taquile island and finally went back to Puno.